I’m sick of pb&j! After years of it, day in and day out, I’m starting to tire of this sandwich. I’ll still eat it, but nowadays, I’ve been trying to make sure there’s leftovers from dinner so I can be spared the pb&j. At Costco, they were doing a big Aidell’s products samples demo. Aidell’s makes pre-cooked chicken products like sausages and meatballs. So delicious. When I asked the lady if the package was supposed to be one pouch or two, she replies, “honey, this is Costco.” Indeed. Their meatballs are so good with the tomato sauce.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Reliving the weekend
Posted by Leaf on September 27, 2010
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It’s only Monday and I’m ready for the weekend. This morning, I had to have coffee because I just could not wake up. It was pitch dark and rainy.
So this weekend we explored Clarendon Day. I brought out my fancy camera and when I went to take pictures, I realized I forgot to put the memory card back in from the last time I uploaded photos. So I’ll just say there were lots of vendors, food vendors, jewelry vendors, myriad assortment of schtuff vendors, and live bands. Obviously we got nothing but food. People food and some cat and dog food samples for our neighbor’s pets to sample. I stupidly wore my 3 inch heels. THREE inches!! They’re shoes I bought years ago and never wore and of course, since I’ll be walking for hours in the city, why not three inch heels. My brain functions most of the time. Except for when I’m at DSW staring at a pair of three inch heels. And when I’m heading out for a day of walking. I’m in blister hell.
Sunday, we went to a bakery that was having an open house. They let people come in to tour their factory and gave out cookies, pretzels, rolls, muffins, and doughnuts as they demonstrated how they made them. I love watching pretzal twirling. Then, we went to Costco. By this time I was pretty hungry. After all those treats, I wanted meat! I got some steaks. Here I am trying to cut back on meat because it bad for me, bad for the environment, bad for everyone in general, and certainly bad for the animals, but I’m weak. Incidentally, we had a t-bone with melted blue cheese on top for dinner. Paired with a glass of wine. Ah, decadence.
And I played an ungodly amount of Sims 2. It’s like the Days of Our Lives of video games.
Autumn
Posted by Leaf on September 22, 2010
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Today is the Autumnal Equinox. It’s also the Mid-Autumn Festival according to the Lunar calendar. We already had our mooncakes and celebratory dinner this past Saturday though cuz it’s kinda’ harder to celebrate a late night dinner on a weekday. I still have a stash of mooncakes in the fridge that we’re whittling away. This year, we had friends over for the dinner and we ate fried rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, lotus roots, and other treats. Even though the moon wasn’t full yet, it was already very bright. So I bet it’ll be even bigger and brighter tonight. Go check it out.
Financial Tidbits
Posted by Leaf on September 21, 2010
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The more convenient automatic banking has made my life, the harder it has been for me to transfer bank accounts. Why I have more than one is really beyond my own comprehension. It’s like I have a piddly $5 here and another $2 there. Why do I do this to myself?! So I’m trying to merge 3 into 1 and in the meantime, I need to make sure there are sufficient funds from one to the other as I reroute bills to automatically draw from the new account versus the old. Hopefully, after all is done, I won’t have to do this again. I’ve been contemplating this consolidation for years but while in school, I was living paycheck to paycheck. There was no cushion to have that margin of safety to transfer all the bills, bills, bills.
Oh check out this baby girl:
My sis & b-i-l got a bunny! I really want one too. Love the paws and big ears. Don’t worry, we’re still keeping these guys.
Summer Harvest
Posted by Leaf on September 20, 2010
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This season of gardening is tapering to an end. I gave my parents my rosemary bush to plant in the ground. Hopefully it will survive the winter. I’ve never had luck planting it in a pot indoors. I think they prefer the wind and drier conditions over stagnant indoor air. I’ve used every herb I grew, except for lemongrass and thyme. Though it was only once for the sage, rosemary, and oregano.
And here is the Serrano chili plant. I think I started this in April and they have finally fruited. I’m guessing I’ll be lucky if I get 3 chilies.
Cavewoman
Posted by Leaf on September 15, 2010
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I find it so mystifying how some people grow up to behave like such knuckle-draggers (thanks, Prudie). I was on my way home from the Metro, and as per usual, it’s standing room only. Barely any standing room at that. So forget having any personal space. One black lady, in her 20s, with straightened hair, nail tips, boobs hanging out of her too tight shirt, a phone where she was obsessively checking Facebook, and a metallic handbag was totally rude to me. She told me I couldn’t stand where I was standing because it was too close to her. Then seconds later, she elbowed me into another standing person! I didn’t say anything to her. I just went back to standing where I was. Not like I had much of a choice. Buh-lieve me lady, I would love to not be in the same car as you but as it were I’d rather go home sooner than later. Anyway, it would’ve been nice if I had had my camera with me but I didn’t. What would you have done? I considered my options since we were trapped for a good 15 minutes in the train after that. Whap her with my handbag on my way out; Give her a stern talking to about how I was pregnant and she shouldn’t have pushed me; Tell her to stfu, bitch… but then I decided not to waste my time or energy on trash. I was just thankful we weren’t related.
Art
Posted by Leaf on September 12, 2010
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Yesterday I went to visit the Alexandria Arts Festival with a friend and we walked up and down the entire street of white tents. This was not your typical “street” fare. This was fancy schmancy art. I mean there were lawn ornaments. There’s barely any lawn in Alexandria, but I guess some folks have a patch of something. Anyway, it was interesting to look at. They also had paintings. Ever since blowing over $200 on getting each of the watercolors framed, I’ve been more cautious about buying art. At least anything unframed. That’s something to consider for anyone looking to buy art. If it isn’t ready to go on your wall expect to plunk another $250 to make it wall-ready. The Torpedo Factory also had a display selling unique hand made clay bowls. They were pretty, but at $15 a piece, I would be sad if I broke one. And I break stuff. Regularly.
After, we went to Trader Joe’s!! I got cereal. 9 boxes. I like cereal. Pretty much I got a cartful of carbs. Bread, pretzals, etc. I’m going into squirrel-hibernation mode already. It’s a week and a half away from fall, the weather just started to get to a tolerable lower 80s, upper 70s and my body’s already freaking out about the winter.
Last Hurrah!
Posted by Leaf on September 7, 2010
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Generally, Labor Day is the mark of starting laborious tasks. Like homework. Not anymore. To me, it’s just the beginning of more days off every single month til the end of the year. Next is October 11th, then November 11th and you know the rest. So this past 3-day weekend, we drove out to the other side of the Chesapeake Bay. No hurricane Earl in sight. In fact, there wasn’t even a drop of rain. A good number of people had to be hospitalized for injuries from the strong waves though. We just went to hang out with some family and watch lots of movies. First up was The Last Song starring Hannah Montana who can’t act. But I still liked it because I’m a sucker for silly romance movies. It’s not worth a second watch but I enjoyed it and I hate to admit it but it did make me cry. Grrr.. Nicholas Sparks!! Bonus: There were sea turtles in the movie! Next was The Backup Plan starring J.Lo. Chickflick night! I liked this one better. It was another romance movie. Funny and fun to watch and there were lots of cute dogs in the movie. I tried to watch Death at a Funeral next but was way too worn out to stay up for the third flick. I haven’t seen so many new-to-me movies in a long time.
Les Peintures
Posted by Leaf on September 5, 2010
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During our trip to Europe, we went on a hunt for street artists who might be selling their paintings. Surprisingly, they were hard to find. We found many people hawking oils in each of the three cities but the sellers weren’t the artists themselves. I pictured some 12-year old in China slaving away in a windowless factory.
In Paris however, we found an artist named George not only displaying his watercolors, but he was in the middle of painting too. We chatted with him for a bit as we looked through the works. He said one day, when he’s long gone, we might have some valuable works of art. Since Paris was our first stop, we lugged these paintings around Venice and Rome. Finally, we went to get them framed at Michael’s. I stop to look at them every so often. Out of all the baubles and keepsakes we got, these weren’t the most expensive items but they might have been the most worthwhile.
Ennui, and by the way…
Posted by Leaf on September 3, 2010
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Me: I’m suffering from daily-grind blues. Bored, no energy, unmotivated. Is it waking up in the dark every morning again? Not having enough time off? 10 hour days compounded with a 2 hour commute? Stupid bosses? Stupid coworkers?
Sis: I know just what you mean. I have been feeling the same way lately. I don’t know why…
Me: We are spiritually connected. I’ve sensed this similarity in energies between us before. I think we have a connection similar to twins.
Sis: I think now is the time (since you are feeling extra sisterly) to tell you that I have broken my sunglasses. On the bright side, I didn’t lose them. 
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